Improvement in barrel-making machines



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SHERIDAN ROBERTS, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN BARREL-MAKING MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 311,847, dated April 1,1862.

To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SHEEIDAN ROBERTS, of

Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have inventednew and useful Improvements in a Machine for Making Barrels and Kegs;and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and completedescription of the construction and operation of the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, making part of thisspecification, in whichd Figure 1 is a plan view. Fig. 2 is a side view.Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the front end; and Fig. 4 is a transversesection in the direction of the lines m sc, Fig. 1. The detachedsections, Figs. 5 and (5, will be referred to in the description.

Like letters refer to like parts in the several views.

The nature of 1n y invention relates to the construction and arrangementof certain mechanical devices for the purpose of cutting from a logcontinuous sheets or sections of any given width andy thickness forbarrels, kegs, dto., as hereinafter described.

This machine is designed to make the body part of the barrels and kegsdescribed in the United States patents granted to me under date ofOctober 16, 1800, February 26, 1861, and May 19, `1861. The primarymotion and gearing may be that ordinarily used. The adjustable stock Ais pivoted at B B to the sliding sash C, which pivots form the axis inthe rear of the knife D and gage E, Figs. 1 and 2. The gage-bar F isconnected to the stock by setserews G G, Fig. 1, which pass through aslot in the bar and screw into the stock. From each end of the barext-ends a" screw, as seen at H H, which passes through a lug at I I, oneach side of which are jamn nuts and screws. The gagebaris moved and setso as to adjust the curved gage J to the log at either or both ends.This gage is connected to the bar F by screws at K K, Fig. 1, or itsequivalent, and by means of the setscrews K K the concave face J Fig. 4,may be adjusted to the periphery of the log L.

At each end of the knife attached to the sash C is a block M, as seen inFigs.` 1, 2, and 3. These two blocks and two screws support and hold theknife in place. On the under side of the gage-box F is connected bysetscrews or otherwise the guide N, Figs. 4 and 6, and which may bemoved to or from the knife D, so as to adapt the space O between uponwhich sashl the cutting and gaging apparatus is mounted. A

To 'the sash is pivoted the screw R at the lower end. The screw-nut S isconstructed with a collar T on the under side, so as to form a circulargroove around the body of the nut for the reception of the yoke U, Figs.1 and 4, which is connected to the stock A by arms or trunnions U U', soas to form an adjustable joint in raising and lowering the sash by thescrew and nut R and S, which is the required object in adjusting theknifeD to the side of the log when cutting.

It will be noticed that the edge of the knife is above the center of thelog,- and that the face of the gage J is a little in the rear of theknife in proportion to the thickness of the piece cut oif from the log.As the log decreases in size, it is desirable that the same relativeposition of the knife and gage to the log should be retained until thelog is cut up. The gage J touches or bears upon the log in such a way asto prevent the knife D from running into the log upon the principle ofan ordinary plane; but as the log decreases in size it will consequentlyrecede from the face of the gage, which leaves the knife liable to run`into the log; but this is prevented by the gage keeping up to the faceof the log by means of the screw R. By turning the nutcrank the gage Jmay be turned to or from the log, according to its diameter. As the sashworks upon the axis or pivot P for this object as the knife is being fedup to the log, the screw Ris operated so as to keep the gage to thedecreasing periphery of the log.

The knife D is concave, with a curved cutf ting-edge, so as to eut offthe pieces from the log in the form of a keg or barrel. The face of thegage J is also concave, so as to correspond to lthe log L in the form ofa barrel or keg. By this arrangement the knife is advanced in a rightline to the log with the gage, and at the same time it is depressed andinclined to the log as its diameter decreases.

Fig. 5 is a detached section of the apparatus for throwing in and out ofgear the feedingscrewr Works; The box a is so connected to the stand bas to slide, as indicated in Fig. 5. In the under side of the stand bare two slots c c. Through the slot cpasses 'the arm d of the lever ofd', and the arm e of the lever e passesV through the slot c. The arms cland e, after passing through each slot, lit into a mortise in the underside of the box a, as is indicated in Fig. 5. to throw the pinions f inand out of gear with the Wheel g. The lever e is upon the same shaft has the lever i, and the lever d is attached to the sleeve j upon theshaft h. The lever lc is also attached to the sleeve. The levers i yandlo are for the convenience of persons' near that part of the machine, asthey Will perform the same functionsl as the levers e and CZ. The springZunder the lever e', acting upon the lever, throws the pinion out ofgear, and by pressing down the lever e the pinion is put in gear, and assoon as it is in gear the arm d, by the action of the spring m, Figs. 3and 5, is forced into a mortise orslot in the under side of the boX, asindicated in Fig; 5, and thereby held in gear, and by pressing down thelever d, so as to Withdraw the arm dfroln the slot in the box, thespring Thus the arms Will so move the box as l, then acting upon thelever, causes the arm c to slide back the box, as before stated.

What I claim as my improvement, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is l l. The adjustable stock A, so arranged that the axis or pivot ofsaid stock shall be in the Arear of the knife and gage, in combinationWith the screw R and nut S, so that in adj usting the knife and gage tothe log the knifeedge can be inclined and depressed at the same time asthe knife-sash C moves in a right line toward the log, in the mannerspecified.

2. The gage-bar F,With its adj usting-screws,

sliding stock c, the' adjustable yoke U, and screw R, in combinationWith Ithe sash C, as set forth. p Y y ,Y 3. The adjustable stockA,pivoted to the sliding sash C in the rear of the knife Dand gage 1J,when operating conjoin'tly, in the Witnesses W. H. BURRIDGE, J.BRAINERD.

